Mukhtar Ebrahimi, an Azerbaijani civil activist, was arrested on Monday and brought to Maragheh jail to serve a one-year jail sentence, in keeping with the Association for the Defense of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners in Iran (ADAP). His lawyer was knowledgeable of the sentence by the Court of Appeal of East Azerbaijan province.
Initially accused of “forming a gaggle to disrupt nationwide safety” by the Islamic Revolutionary Court, his cost was modified to “propaganda in opposition to the regime” within the appeals court docket and his jail time period was diminished to at least one 12 months.
The ADAP report states that the decide based mostly the cost of “propaganda in opposition to the regime” on group pictures with different civil activists, in addition to on “800 pages of articles and a DVD” of his speeches in non-public gatherings associated to accumulating public donations for pure catastrophe victims.
Previously, Mukhtar Ebrahimi was arrested in August and launched after a month of interrogation with a bail of 500 million tomans. According to his relations, false accusations by the Maragheh Intelligence Department led to his arrest.
Yashar Hakakpour, director of ADAP, acknowledged that Ebrahimi is an entrepreneur and political-social activist who was sentenced to at least one 12 months and 6 months in jail for defending freedom of expression and ethnic rights.
Hakakpour believes that the fees in opposition to Ebrahimi are baseless and that the strain on Azerbaijani activists has been growing, with a number of others being arrested or imprisoned in current months. The US Department of State has condemned the suppression of protesters and violations of residents’ rights by the Iranian authorities.